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Camerin vs Camilla

American parents have registered 30,282 Camillas since 1880, against 820 Camerins. Camilla is still ahead, with 847 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Camerin against Camilla, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Camerin Camilla

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Camilla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Camerin had 46 and Camilla had 153.

Side by side

  Camerin Camilla
Total US births 82030,282
Most in one year 521,224
Babies in 2025 under 5847
Estimated living today 81025,000
Median age today 2212
Peak year 20072019
Best rank 2,811th boys271st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked361st
First recorded 19831880
Girls / boys 236 / 58430,276 / 6

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Camerins alive today are over 22; half the Camillas are over 12. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Camerin and Camilla.